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BOSTON (AP) — Goran Dragic had 22 points and seven assists, and the banged-up Miami Heat beat the Boston Celtics 93-86 on Wednesday night. Luol Deng scored 15 points for Miami, and Udonis Haslem had 12 points and 12 rebounds. Henry Walker and Tyler Johnson also scored 12 points apiece. Miami played without Dwyane Wade, Hassan Whiteside and Chris Andersen due to injuries, but bounced back quite nicely from Tuesday night's disappointing 89-88 loss at Milwaukee. The Heat blew a 14-point lead in the final 6 1/2 minutes against the Bucks. Miami (33-38) has won four of six and is seventh in the Eastern Conference playoff race. Jae Crowder scored 16 points and Avery Bradley had...

Henry Walker's meandering journey, which has taken him from the hardscrabble streets of Huntington, W.Va., to the Heat via the Knicks, Celtics, Venezuela, the Philippines and several NBDL outposts never would have happened if he hadn't made a decision...

Earlier in the day, Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade was asked if he felt teammate Hassan Whiteside had learned his lesson about controlling his emotions on the court.
Apparently, Whiteside has yet to check his voice mail because he obviously hasn't gotten...

To say the Miami Heat have been presented with a new problem every day since last season ended, that would be an exaggeration. But not by much. For the Heat, strange has become normal. Players who weren't in Miami when the season began now find themselves...

In a season when everything has changed for the Miami Heat, Thursday was a day when it seemed as if nothing had changed.
There, on the practice court at the Smoothie King Center, was Michael Beasley, chatting, joking, shooting, getting buckets. And,...

This was the right opponent at the right time.
There will be greater challenges for the Miami Heat in coming days -- in terms of emotion and quality of competition -- but what Erik Spoelstra's team needed Friday night at Madison Square Garden was a...

They are the three words in the same sentence that make Miami Heat fans cringe: Wade. Knee. Sidelined.
Sunday, for the first time this season, that was the case, with Dwyane Wade sidelined against the Boston Celtics at AmericanAirlines Arena due to a...

There was no easing back into the mix. Not for Dwyane Wade. Not for Carmelo Anthony.
Not when the rest of the play was this ragged, when shooting percentages were meager, points scarce.
Sunday night's 86-79 Miami Heat victory over the New York Knicks at...

Maybe the Chicago Bulls-Miami Heat rivalry isn't dead after all.
Two days after LeBron James left the Heat to return to his home-state Cleveland Cavaliers, Luol Deng agreed to a two-year, $20 million deal with the Heat.
Deng met with Heat president...

LAS VEGAS — The 2014-15 Bulls are taking shape. They’re just not making it official yet.
League sources said Kirk Hinrich will follow Pau Gasol and officially sign in the coming days. Nikola Mirotic tweeted that he will “fulfill a dream” and leave Real...

With the Miami Heat focusing on winning a third straight championship, another topic continues to overshadow their chase at history.
Before Wednesday's Game 5 against the Brooklyn Nets in the Eastern Conference semifinals, forward LeBron James had to...

SAN ANTONIO -- LeBron James guaranteed he would play better. He did.
But who knew Dwyane Wade would practically steal the show with 32 points, ignoring his injured right knee and guaranteeing with his play that the NBA Finals would return to Miami next...

Some people will do just about anything to get a photo of "Transformers: Age of Extinction" filming, as proven by one double-decker tour bus driver Saturday in front of the Chicago Board of Trade building. The driver pulled out her camera...

Don’t look now, and Derrick Rose apparently isn’t, but the Bulls franchise player’s image could become a five-alarm fire in the next two weeks.
I didn’t think there was anything worse than Rose’s sitting on the bench in street clothes while hobbled and...

The Miami Heat not only are loading up on victories, piling up points and dominating with defense, but they also might well lead the NBA in . . . underwear models?
"I call it 'Free Birding,' " backup center and part-time underwear model...

In a move that will lighten the Miami Heat’s payroll and luxury tax bill, the team shipped seldom-used center Joel Anthony to the Boston Celtics in a three-team trade Wednesday.
The Heat received guard Toney Douglas from the Golden State Warriors in...

It’s not the prettiest thing. But it might be the most important. Rebounding. As former championship coach Pat Riley once said, “No rebounds, no rings.’’ By the way, whatever happened to that Riley guy? Anyway, Miami committed to going small. The Bulls...

The Bulls couldn’t hit from the floor and couldn’t hit from the free-throw line. What else you got? Nerf basketball, anyone?
Derrick Rose was bad. Carlos Boozer was awful. Luol Deng was useless in the second half. Everybody else followed.
And that’s how...

Derrick Rose would appear to be facing the most important fourth quarter of his career tonight.
That’s what happens when your last two fourth quarters have been awful and your team has lost control of the Eastern Conference finals.
I mean, get a load of...

MIAMI The Miami Heat have officially ended its season on Monday with a massive championship parade and rally that was attended by thousands of fans.
Heat players took turns thanking a packed American Airlines Arena filled with fans wearing "white...